turn yellow, hang down, and finally fall off, leaving the stalks
standing with probably a few pods clinging to them.
 On the station ground some beans were planted quite
closely in the row; the blight commenced near one end and
spread both ways until in one direction the row ended, and in
the other there was a break of about two feet in the row. It
must not be inferred, however, that the contamination took
place through the leaves or vines, but it followed the roots and
spread through the soil.



 Squash.
 The summer squash (Cucurbita pepo) is especially liable to
its attack. -Both the fruit and the vine suffer, and probably
propagate the disease more than any other plant, except the egg-
plant. The disease is known by a general sickly look of the
plant and gradual pining away. The fruit, when attacked, soon
rots down, more from the injury which admits bacteria and fungi
inducing decay, than from blight.




 Cabbage.
 Cabbage, when attacked, looks like it had wilted down in a
heap. Such plants can be lifted right off their roots. Their
stems, at a line about even with the top of the ground, will be
found completely rotted, while the part only an inch above and an
inch below appears sound. This rotten place is where the blight
made its entrance, and the decay is simply a result of the injury.
The blight, before the decay has set in, has passed into the
fresher portions. ScleroHia are produced in the last stage.
 There is a bacterial disease of cabbage that may be mis-
taken for this ; one that has probably not yet appeared in our State.
The tomato blight caus s the stem to rot just at the ground line,
while the bacterial disease is characterized by a rotting of the
interior of the head. "*
 *H. Gaman, p. o12, Ex. Str. Bul. No. 7, U. S. D. A.